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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
Maikel Garcia	Hamstring	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
James McArthur	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Jonathan India	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Jose Altuve	Oblique	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	06-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 7
Josh Hader	Biceps	06-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 2
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 10
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Braden Shewmake	Groin	06-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 2
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	06-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	58	229	28	65	26	9	24	45	.284	.349	.472	.821	14	1	16	3	192
M. Garcia 3B	56	224	28	60	21	3	20	35	.268	.325	.384	.709	15	1	4	3	142
V. Pasquantino 1B	55	202	21	43	25	5	27	43	.213	.303	.342	.645	7	2	2	0	125
S. Perez C	56	214	21	45	25	9	11	46	.210	.259	.364	.623	6	0	0	0	116
C. Jensen C	53	167	22	38	26	7	20	54	.228	.309	.401	.710	8	0	0	0	109
I. Collins LF	50	154	20	34	16	3	24	48	.221	.337	.325	.662	7	0	3	3	93
J. Caglianone RF	53	175	18	41	11	5	14	59	.234	.298	.383	.681	9	1	1	1	83
K. Isbel CF	48	141	15	35	11	3	8	36	.248	.301	.369	.670	6	1	5	0	81
M. Massey 2B	42	108	11	24	13	3	4	22	.222	.243	.389	.632	9	0	1	0	61
L. Thomas CF	44	99	8	20	9	1	21	27	.202	.341	.263	.604	3	0	3	3	54
N. Loftin 2B	26	65	10	14	13	0	8	9	.215	.321	.323	.644	7	0	0	0	50
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	24	56	3	15	2	0	4	17	.268	.333	.321	.654	3	0	0	1	19
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert SS	12	7	2	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	0	0	3	1	7
Total	58	1911	218	448	211	52	194	461	.234	.309	.373	.682	97	6	38	15	1185

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	11	11	4-2	0	0	70.1	2.69	50	22	21	8	22	60	.200	1.02	190
S. Lugo SP	12	12	2-4	0	0	71.0	3.55	73	31	28	4	23	60	.269	1.35	136
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
L. Erceg RP	23	0	3-3	11	16	21.1	6.33	28	17	15	1	13	18	.329	1.92	100
S. Kolek SP	5	5	3-1	0	0	31.0	3.48	23	14	12	4	6	19	.202	0.94	85
N. Cameron SP	10	10	2-4	0	0	52.2	4.61	57	30	27	5	17	48	.271	1.41	84
D. Lynch RP	23	0	1-0	1	2	23.1	1.93	15	8	5	1	8	27	.174	0.99	67
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	24	0	0-2	1	1	22.0	2.86	19	7	7	3	10	12	.244	1.32	32
M. Strahm RP	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
A. Lange RP	23	0	0-2	0	0	25.0	4.68	22	14	13	2	13	24	.244	1.40	27
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
L. Avila RP	10	1	0-2	0	0	21.1	5.06	27	12	12	1	12	20	.325	1.83	13
E. Morgan RP	11	0	0-1	1	1	14.1	5.65	20	9	9	4	7	11	.323	1.88	13
M. Black RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	2.70	8	2	2	1	3	7	.296	1.65	10
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	7
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
S. Cruz RP	13	0	0-2	0	1	13.0	9.00	14	14	13	7	10	19	.264	1.85	1
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	58	58	22-36	14	25	513.0	4.51	490	274	257	69	229	469	.252	1.40	974

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	59	213	39	65	39	20	39	45	.305	.419	.643	1.062	12	0	1	0	237
C. Walker 1B	59	217	36	55	43	16	21	47	.253	.329	.521	.850	10	0	0	0	193
I. Paredes 3B	54	195	21	46	24	6	20	36	.236	.329	.374	.703	9	0	0	0	127
C. Smith RF	59	194	26	43	21	6	22	60	.222	.311	.356	.667	8	0	7	1	125
J. Altuve 2B	42	163	27	40	12	4	19	35	.245	.326	.380	.706	10	0	1	2	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	38	112	10	28	17	4	10	19	.250	.311	.393	.704	4	0	0	0	71
J. Pena SS	22	88	15	24	8	3	4	14	.273	.323	.420	.743	4	0	3	0	66
B. Matthews CF	49	142	14	29	14	4	11	50	.204	.260	.331	.591	4	1	2	3	62
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
J. Meyers CF	23	69	8	16	7	2	5	15	.232	.289	.362	.651	3	0	1	2	38
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
T. Trammell CF	15	47	7	16	6	0	4	16	.340	.404	.447	.851	3	1	1	0	33
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
N. Allen SS	31	48	10	13	5	1	3	10	.271	.321	.354	.675	1	0	1	0	33
Z. Cole LF	18	51	3	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	20
Z. Dezenzo LF	19	44	5	9	2	1	4	17	.205	.271	.364	.635	4	0	0	0	18
S. Whitcomb 3B	14	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
C. Salazar C	8	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
Total	60	2018	271	496	260	79	200	480	.246	.321	.413	.734	94	3	21	10	1391

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	8	8	7-1	0	0	47.0	1.34	27	9	7	2	26	43	.167	1.13	150
K. Teng RP	18	5	3-3	0	0	42.0	2.57	27	12	12	5	19	43	.185	1.10	96
P. Lambert SP	8	8	4-4	0	0	45.1	3.77	34	19	19	2	21	43	.207	1.21	96
M. Burrows SP	11	11	3-6	0	0	63.1	5.40	71	38	38	13	21	54	.283	1.45	84
B. King RP	22	0	0-1	6	9	25.1	2.84	23	10	8	1	10	19	.237	1.30	78
E. De Los Santos RP	22	0	0-1	4	4	23.1	3.47	19	10	9	1	5	22	.211	1.03	71
A. Blubaugh RP	23	0	2-2	0	0	36.2	4.42	27	18	18	5	21	28	.208	1.31	61
S. Okert RP	28	1	0-0	0	0	26.0	3.46	17	10	10	3	8	22	.189	0.96	52
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
B. Abreu RP	21	0	2-2	3	3	18.1	6.87	15	15	14	4	22	23	.227	2.02	37
T. Imai SP	6	6	2-2	0	0	23.1	6.17	17	16	16	4	18	23	.207	1.50	34
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
N. Pearson RP	3	0	0-0	1	1	2.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	2	2	.111	1.13	13
L. VanWey RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	5	.100	0.33	10
A. Santa RP	2	0	0-1	0	0	3.0	0.00	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	5
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	60	60	27-33	15	18	527.1	4.97	476	302	291	76	285	495	.241	1.44	914

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